"What would you think of taking in me and my sword?"

You have the strength of the South in your sword.

"I have more faith in my sword than that old man and his god."

And felt the unsettling lack of balance in my sword.

I could have used the power in my sword to continue, but it was less subtle and already people were awakening.

Blade noticed a nick in his sword, but decided it would last out the rest of the fight.

Aspirit, I guess you'd call him, who now lived in my sword.

It was as if the demonstration of power in the Sword had been enough to warn the creature off.

And the rest of him in your sword.

Guy held the banner-staff in one hand and his sword in the other.